Quotes About Empathy

7 percent of a person's message is conveyed through words and 93 percent is conveyed nonverbally (38 percent vocal tone; 55 percent body language).

los líderes eficaces poseen la capacidad de actuar e incitar a los demás a hacerlo porque conocen las fuerzas invisibles que nos configuran».[6] La comunicación apasionada, poderosa y estimulante es una de esas fuerzas que nos mueven y nos configuran.

The Art of Asking,

good story also has specific details to help the listener see herself in the founder's story. A detail such as Sara's seat number on the airplane is irrelevant to the story. The fact that Sara's $98 pair of white pants hung in the closet for eight months because she didn't like the way they looked on her is something that many women can relate to.

Great communicators reach your head and touch your heart.

Apple wants to reach your heart instead of your wallet.

the movement of people fleeing tyranny, violence, and withered opportunities is sacrosanct to Americans.

She was in firm solidarity with the oppressed and downtrodden.

She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

I scorned him for huddling by the fire, and he offered to share his tea. I reviled him for his cowardice at the kai's lair, and he made me soup. I ridiculed his noble ancestry, and he laughed at himself and cleaned my hearth. I drove him unmercifully in his schooling, and he devoured it as if I'd gifted him with jewels.

I tried to think of something equally kind to say, but he seemed to have used up all the eloquence in the room.

Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.

Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?" My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: "I'd be Osama bin Laden, and I'd kill myself.

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan---if even for a moment---and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...Walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. ---Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page

And the next time you raise your gun to needlessly take a feathered life, think of the marvelous little engine which your lead will stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright eyes of the bird whose body equals yours in physical perfection, and whose tiny brain can generate a sympathy, a love for its mate, which in sincerity and unselfishness suffers little when compared with human affection.4

A friend is someone who hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions of the earth!" -Isadora Duncan

What, for example, could be more calculated to produce brutal wife-beaters than long practice of savage cruelty towards the other animals?" -Edith Ward

Equality isn't an idea; it is a practice. We practice it when we don't treat other people or other animals as objects.

Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.

Justice should not be so fragile a commodity that it cannot be extended beyond the species barrier of Homo Sapiens.

If your dog is still needy, give him more of what he needs.

For people like us, the life span of dogs is the world's dirtiest trick.